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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    What does it say about American society that a black gay actor/singer on a hit tv show felt that he wasn’t getting enough attention and praise in that role and came up with the idea that elevating himself into a victim of racist homophobes was a better way to draw attention and sympathy in America today?

    It speaks volumes about the left and their need to create the false narrative on how America is this racist hell hole where blacks and gays are constantly being faced with beatings and harassment from white bigots, when the reality is that these incidents are so rare you have manufacture fake hate crimes and falsely claim that white Trump supporters beat you up

    Blowhard Bobby.

    This incident says a smidge about society, and volumes about Smollett.
    But why did he feel that this was a better way to garner sympathy and attention?

    He didn’t decide to tell the world he had cancer and was dying, he decided to perpetuate a fake hate crime.

    And you don’t feel contemporary society plays any role in that?
    Fake hate crimes garner more pub. Cancer...very hard to fake and a c-list actor getting sick is not a big story.

    He's an attention whore.

    I allowed that society has a role, it's just mostly on the attention whore.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    What does it say about American society that a black gay actor/singer on a hit tv show felt that he wasn’t getting enough attention and praise in that role and came up with the idea that elevating himself into a victim of racist homophobes was a better way to draw attention and sympathy in America today?

    It speaks volumes about the left and their need to create the false narrative on how America is this racist hell hole where blacks and gays are constantly being faced with beatings and harassment from white bigots, when the reality is that these incidents are so rare you have manufacture fake hate crimes and falsely claim that white Trump supporters beat you up

    Blowhard Bobby.

    This incident says a smidge about society, and volumes about Smollett.
    But why did he feel that this was a better way to garner sympathy and attention?

    He didn’t decide to tell the world he had cancer and was dying, he decided to perpetuate a fake hate crime.

    And you don’t feel contemporary society plays any role in that?
    Fake hate crimes garner more pub. Cancer...very hard to fake and a c-list actor getting sick is not a big story.

    He's an attention whore.

    I allowed that society has a role, it's just mostly on the attention whore.
    The core reporting on the story was fine. Anyone with a computer and half a brain could see the reported circumstances were suspect.

    The aggressive agenda-grafting by the other attention whores was shocking though.
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    What does it say about American society that a black gay actor/singer on a hit tv show felt that he wasn’t getting enough attention and praise in that role and came up with the idea that elevating himself into a victim of racist homophobes was a better way to draw attention and sympathy in America today?

    It speaks volumes about the left and their need to create the false narrative on how America is this racist hell hole where blacks and gays are constantly being faced with beatings and harassment from white bigots, when the reality is that these incidents are so rare you have manufacture fake hate crimes and falsely claim that white Trump supporters beat you up

    Blowhard Bobby.

    This incident says a smidge about society, and volumes about Smollett.
    But why did he feel that this was a better way to garner sympathy and attention?

    He didn’t decide to tell the world he had cancer and was dying, he decided to perpetuate a fake hate crime.

    And you don’t feel contemporary society plays any role in that?
    Fake hate crimes garner more pub. Cancer...very hard to fake and a c-list actor getting sick is not a big story.

    He's an attention whore.

    I allowed that society has a role, it's just mostly on the attention whore.
    He is an attention whore who knows that in today's America there is no greater ticket for fame and acclaim then saying you were attacked for being black and gay. Him being an attention whore and it being a statement about contemporary American society aren't mutually exclusive.

  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    What does it say about American society that a black gay actor/singer on a hit tv show felt that he wasn’t getting enough attention and praise in that role and came up with the idea that elevating himself into a victim of racist homophobes was a better way to draw attention and sympathy in America today?

    It speaks volumes about the left and their need to create the false narrative on how America is this racist hell hole where blacks and gays are constantly being faced with beatings and harassment from white bigots, when the reality is that these incidents are so rare you have manufacture fake hate crimes and falsely claim that white Trump supporters beat you up

    Blowhard Bobby.

    This incident says a smidge about society, and volumes about Smollett.
    But why did he feel that this was a better way to garner sympathy and attention?

    He didn’t decide to tell the world he had cancer and was dying, he decided to perpetuate a fake hate crime.

    And you don’t feel contemporary society plays any role in that?
    Fake hate crimes garner more pub. Cancer...very hard to fake and a c-list actor getting sick is not a big story.

    He's an attention whore.

    I allowed that society has a role, it's just mostly on the attention whore.
    He is an attention whore who knows that in today's America there is no greater ticket for fame and acclaim then saying you were attacked for being black and gay. Him being an attention whore and it being a statement about contemporary American society aren't mutually exclusive.

    No greater ticket for fame and acclaim?

    Holy hyperbole batman!

    Your second sentence is difficult to parse, but I’m just a dumb Beaver.
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    What does it say about American society that a black gay actor/singer on a hit tv show felt that he wasn’t getting enough attention and praise in that role and came up with the idea that elevating himself into a victim of racist homophobes was a better way to draw attention and sympathy in America today?

    It speaks volumes about the left and their need to create the false narrative on how America is this racist hell hole where blacks and gays are constantly being faced with beatings and harassment from white bigots, when the reality is that these incidents are so rare you have manufacture fake hate crimes and falsely claim that white Trump supporters beat you up

    Blowhard Bobby.

    This incident says a smidge about society, and volumes about Smollett.
    But why did he feel that this was a better way to garner sympathy and attention?

    He didn’t decide to tell the world he had cancer and was dying, he decided to perpetuate a fake hate crime.

    And you don’t feel contemporary society plays any role in that?
    Fake hate crimes garner more pub. Cancer...very hard to fake and a c-list actor getting sick is not a big story.

    He's an attention whore.

    I allowed that society has a role, it's just mostly on the attention whore.
    He is an attention whore who knows that in today's America there is no greater ticket for fame and acclaim then saying you were attacked for being black and gay. Him being an attention whore and it being a statement about contemporary American society aren't mutually exclusive.

    No greater ticket for fame and acclaim?

    Holy hyperbole batman!

    Your second sentence is difficult to parse, but I’m just a dumb Beaver.
    I’d never heard of the guy before this incident. I know who he is now. Obviously, being a celebrity victim of a hate crime is a better way to get yourself known to most of America than just simply being a celebrity.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,470 Founders Club